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The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a training programme enabling participants to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways. Workshops are delivered by our trained facilitators and are experiential (not based on lectures).

Our workshops draw on the shared experience of participants, using interactive exercises, discussions, games and role-plays to examine the ways we respond to situations where injustice, prejudice, frustration and anger can lead to aggressive behaviour and violence.

News from the world

"AVP helped me realise that I am the source of violence and in order to make a difference I have to start with me."

Community Leader - Port Elizabeth, South Africa

"I have learned that when people cannot tolerate others' moral, cultural, religious or political differences, conflict is inevitable and often costly, so the first thing we have to learn is that our fights and personal differences are part of life and that it is a mistake to avoid conflict; life can be less painful if we learn to anticipate conflict and manage it constructively"

Noha - Sudan

"If I had had this workshop when I was younger I wouldn't be here and a father would be alive today."

Prison participant - Connecticut, USA

"I liked the way the program was laid out. It didn't matter how we felt coming in here. The program got you to open up and participate without even realizing it."

Veteran in Jail - Tacoma Washington, USA

"I went into the workshop as a pessimist and I came out a changed person. I was alive, I was actually alive."

Inmate - Raleigh, NC. USA

"When I learned about the spark of transforming power, I learned about the spark within me that became a flame, so bright that I could change myself and everyone around me to prevent violent situations from happening."